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I build a dynamic capital structure model that demonstrates how business-cycle variations in expected growth rates, economic uncertainty, and risk premia influence firms' financing and default policies. Countercyclical fluctuations in risk prices, default probabilities, and default losses arise...
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Since the early 2000s liquidity in option markets has become less resilient, and our evidence suggests that it is so … because of an increased vulnerability to liquidity shocks in the underlying. To demonstrate the causal impact, we consider an … increased uninformed order flow resulting in liquidity-related uncertainty in the equity market. Option spreads of impacted …
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This paper shows that firm growth potential – representing a firm's yet-unexercised growth opportunities – is associated with option overpricing and low future delta-hedged option returns. We provide an explanation of this phenomenon based on the idea that retail investors exert buying...
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This paper shows that the effect of inflation on asset prices and real aggregates depends on the financial intermediation sector. When firms finance using nominal long-term debt issued by financial intermediaries, unexpected changes in inflation lead to a wealth transfer across sectors. Higher...
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finding of the square measure of competition is supported by competition stability theory. However, this study also proved …
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